Tag Archives : phishing

The security filter in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the SmartScreen Filter, used to protect users from dubious sites, has blocked a billion downloads of malware, according to an announcement from Microsoft. As with similar tools, found, for example, in Mozilla Firefox, the first action SmartScreen is to verify that each site is visited on a white list [...]

One of the biggest social networking services, Facebook Inc. has been well known for its stringent privacy policies and security measures that the company employs to safeguard the users logged on to the Facebook network. Now, in an effort to enhance the security of user information and user logon, the company has introduced new security features to [...]

The spam in Gmail is on the rise. Spammers are using fake accounts from Gmail to clog inboxes around the world, which makes the “gmail.com” domain name most used in such abuses, according to the latest quarterly report from Commtouch. Only 1% of email spam actually comes from real accounts from Gmail, and “This small percentage probably [...]

As you read this text, billions of useless emails clog Internet traffic and filled mailboxes around the world. They make millions of Internet users waste valuable time deleting unwanted messages and delay legitimate communications. Boredom, reduced productivity, loss of time: it is spam, the scourge that reaches all countries, and growing a breakneck [...]

In 2008, the dissemination of harmful software such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and the like grew by 265% on a global scale. More than 60% of currently known threats were detected during the past year. Much more today than in the past, cyber criminals are in the Web business with the intent to make money. Illegally, of course. The practice of [...]